February 20—June 20, 2010

Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams is a solo exhibition that brings together two projects, United Space of Conditioned Becoming, that features videos, objects, events and lectures produced over a 15-year period, and her most recent multi-media project, Endless Dreams and Water Between first seen at The Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. In addition, YBCA is also commissioning unrealized components of Endless Dreams and Water Between which includes short films, drawings, banners, audio projects, a window installation at street level, and a related publication in the form of a compendium including texts by scholars, artists and theorists.

http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=9540

February 12—April 28, 2010

Since its opening in 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Guggenheim building has served as an inspiration for invention, challenging artists and architects to react to its eccentric, organic design. The central void of the rotunda has elicited many unique responses over the years, which have been manifested in both site-specific solo shows and memorable exhibition designs. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Organized by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, the exhibition will feature renderings of these visionary projects in a salon-style installation that will emphasize the rich and diverse range of the proposals received.

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view-now/contemplating-the-void

March 13—June 27, 2010

Connecting Modernist geometric abstraction to the shape of our built environment, Mika Tajima explores activities and performative roles defined by divisive spaces. Tajima’s The Double constructs a phantom performance space and workplace, referencing sources ranging from Herman Miller’s conflicted office furniture system from the late 1960s to the 1970 cult film Performance.

http://www.bassmuseum.org/October/exhibitions.html

March 26—May 24, 2010

The Power Plant’s spring 2010 season launches with the first museum solo exhibition worldwide by American artist Ryan Trecartin and the debut of his seven-video epic, Any Ever. Trecartin has released three major works to date, A Family finds Entertainment (2006), I-BE AREA (2007), and after three years, the seven-part work Any Ever (2009–2010) is fully complete. Destabilizing and amazing his audiences, Trecartin embraces an aesthetic of collaborative improvisation and lo-fi technology to realize his heady explorations of consumer culture and fractured identity in the digital age. With their frenetic, insomniac energy, his works create a cracked parallel universe only slightly more surreal and fast-paced than the one we actually inhabit.

Following its premiere at The Power Plant, Any Ever will travel to major art institutions internationally including the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in Fall 2010 and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, in Spring 2011.

http://www.thepowerplant.org/current.html